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Re: member id's: simple numbers or something more?
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Date: 
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:12:24 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:

Well, actually, here's one place they might show up:  Suppose that someday
lugnet.com (or lugnet.org) offers e-mail addresses.  It would mean that, for
example, LarryP might conceivably someday be able to receive and send mail
to/from lar@lugnet.org -- that's not inconceivable someday.

Actually, I don't see that as much of an issue.  As an example, my e-mail
address shows up as "galliard@shades-of-night.com", however, the actual POP box
I am assigned is "shadesofnight03", which has yet another designation for
netnation internally.  Not to mention that just about every other email address
at shades-of-night (all but three out of ~50, in fact) is a forward to an
external box somewhere else.

So, if the day comes when Lugnet offers e-mail, Larry would have the POP box of
"2", and could assign "lar@" or "larryp@" or conceivably anything else you
allow to be his apparant address.  Or, if Larry so desired, he could dispense
with the Lugnet POP box altogether, and have "lar@lugnet.com" automatically
forward to his Novera account, where it will show up in the header as sent to
"lar@lugnet.com"

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/

P.S. I'm in favour of using a straight numerical system.  It's simple, it's
straightforward, and even a computer can understand it :)
Assigning ID's either through 'first posting to Lugnet' order (at least
initially - it should be possible for people who have never posted to get a
membership), or completely randomly, excepting yourself and Suzanne.



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  Re: member id's: simple numbers or something more?
 
James Brown wrote (...) Sounds good to me. Moz, Chris, "hey you" and whatever else falls my way (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)

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(...) Very well put -- Yes, that's about it! As far as I can imagine right now, they'll only appear in URLs. I'm *sure* there must be some other place that they'll pop up someday down the road, but my crystal ball draws a blank on that one today. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)

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